The new open beta experience will be made available to all players from February 23rd to 27th, 2017, on current-gen consoles and PC.

It was also confirmed that the Wildlands pre-load for the Open Beta will start this Monday, February 20th, 2017. As revealed earlier, the Open Beta run will include new provinces to explore, which has been confirmed as Itacua and Montuyoc.

Itacua: A flourishing and mountainous province where the grip of the cartel is looser, ideal to perfect your sniping skills and get introduced to the Wildlands.

Montuyoc: set in the snowy Altiplano, and the second province available in this Open Beta, is much more challenging – players who have suppressed the Itacua bosses will gain XP and skills boosts allowing them to face this dangerous area, home to Santa Blanca elite training centers. Players can of course confront Montuyoc right away… at their own risk.

Also, each player entering the Open Beta will get access to an exclusive mission – the “Unidad Conspiracy” mission, in which players will spark a war between the Unidad, a local corrupt militia group, and the Santa Blanca cartel – by playing the full game before March 31st, using the same Ubisoft account.

As in the full game, all the content in the Open Beta will be playable with up to three friends on the same platform via four player co-op, or in single player.

“Players are free to utilise a large variety of vehicles, tactical equipment and weapons to get the job done,” a message from Ubisoft teases.

“Set in the largest action-adventure open world ever created by Ubisoft, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands takes place in Bolivia, a few years from now, as the country has been turned by the vicious Santa Blanca drug cartel into a narco-state. Players are tasked with eliminating the cartel by any means necessary.”

Ghost Recon Wildlands for PS4, Xbox One and PC

Ghost Recon Wildlands for PS4, Xbox One and PC:

For Honor reviews have been coming in thick and fast and we now know how the game ranks among players and critics on each platform.

Metacritic has a breakdown on how For Honor has fared on each platform, with the highest ratings coming on Xbox One.

For Honor on Xbox One has an average score of 82 from critics and 7.2 from users, as you’d expect, there are a lot more player reviews submitted.

The PS4 version isn't far behind, scoring 81 among reviewers and 7.0 among fans. The lowest scores come in on PC, with For Honor managing a 76 with reviewers and a measly 6.7 with users.

The 6.7 is based on 258 ratings, 41 positive, 13 mixed and 24 negative, while the critics score is based on an average from 11 reviewers.

Here’s what PC Gamer (74 Score) had to say on the new title: “Outside of the fighting, however, For Honor is a needlessly bloated game.

“There’s a lot of tediously granular customisation, a tacky free-to-play-style storefront selling in-game currency for real-world money, and a tangle of ugly, confusing menus to wrestle through before you can get into a battle. And as time goes on, and those stalwart, hardcore players continue to hone their skills, it’ll be even more unwelcoming to newcomers.

“Stick with it, though, and you’ll find a rich, tactical fighting game with wonderfully weighty combat and hidden depths to uncover. But if you want something accessible you can easily dip in and out of, you may want to swear fealty to another lord.”

For Honor DLC characters leak

For Honor arrives later this month on PS4, Xbox One and PC:

Assassin’s Creed Da Vinci’s Workshop was a project recently discovered online, which looked to confirm Ubisoft’s future plans for one of their biggest franchises.

“The game itself is a co-op escape room where players must solve numerous puzzles inside Leonardo’s workshop to recover a piece of Eden,” the official game description reads.

The discovery of the new Assassin’s Creed project led to speculation this could be a big new project from Ubisoft, however, more background information has now been shared.

Clarifying the situation, a project page for the VR experience now reads: “Assassin’s Creed: Da Vinci’s Workshop is a collaboration project between my university, NHTV, and Ubisoft meant for in-house experimentation of VR.

“Currently there is no plan for game to be commercially released or released at all.”

The project is being built using Unreal Engine 4, and is designed to run on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

While this new update suggests that Ubisoft will be sticking with Assassin’s Creed Empire as their main franchise expansion this year, this does suggest that the game’s publisher are ready to start experimenting with possible VR tie-ins.

Assassin's Creed Empire will take a radically different approach to storytelling, according to Ubisoft. Ubisoft's Serge Hascoet told French newspaper Le Monde that linear narratives should be secondary, and that games should be more like anecdote factories.